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Letters to you - matchbox art

Description

This little matchbox is a part of a larger art project.

Absolute freedom with a lot of limitations.

Last year when I started my job at the library I made a matchbox a day (for 16 days) to keep my creativity in a functioning order. This spring I did something a bit similar. Not a matchbox a day, more like five a day when I felt like it. I wrote letters. In Finnish, to my creative English speaking friends. It was like telling secrets, because even if the dictionary works, my handwriting doesn't. Anyway, the letters became parts of my matchbox sketches, created with materials within arm's reach. I didn't go out and buy anything or spend time going through my massive stash of stuff looking for just the right color for this or that.

Now I'm writing letters to you. All one of a kind, most of them include a letter, a poem or a word. In Finnish. That's a part of the secret I'm telling you. (Oh well, if you know Finnish or are persistent with your online translator, I can't keep you from purchasing one, but I did make these for people who don't understand my language. Still, I can promise I haven't written anything filthy or crazy in your letter.)

This is a long story and I don't know how it ends. Let's find out.

size: 1.5"x2.3"x0.6" (3,8x5,8x1,6cm)

Added on Nov 12, 2009

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Item ships from: Finland

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